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In reply to the discussion: LOL! Snowden's background check? Outsourced! Company that did it now under investigation. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)you trot out the "smear" word. Hint--overuse will dull the drama of it all. And you don't have to swear to personally insult people--name calling is disruptive, uncivil and nasty. Stop characterizing people with slurs when you don't agree with them--it's not cool.
Again, this guy believes he's telling the truth. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. Maybe his documents are solid, and maybe they aren't.
Just because people don't "deny" things doesn't make it the truth. No one denied that the Canadians were making a movie called Argo in Iran after the revolution. That didn't make it the truth, though. There was no Canadian film company, even though there was a script, and story boards, and articles in the newspaper.
I think for myself -- I don't need you nor Greenwald to tell me what to believe, but you certainly get piqued when I refuse to follow your preferred script. And refusing to take what stinks like crap at face value isn't "attacking" (another tiresome, schoolyard word, used by people who are on the losing end of a discussion) -- it's applying, and even withholding--judgment for the time being. So just get over yourself, and ease back on the throttle. You're doing the opposite of Making a Sale with your attitude and "ridiculous, pathetic" (your whining, loaded words) snark.